Randy A. Salas

Randy Salas is a digital editor (homepage/features) at the Star Tribune. When he's not watching movies in his home theater, he's playing video games -- occasionally even both at the same time. (It can be done.) In Randy's world, life is high-def.

Patty Duke stars as a pregnant widow who journeys to northern Minnesota to visit the mother-in-law she's never met. But then a snowstorm traps her and her late husband's odd kin in their musty manor — brilliantly played by the Glensheen estate in Duluth.

More than 2,000 musicians and performers in 20 drum and bugle corps will take over TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday to compete in DCI Minnesota, one of the nation's largest such marching contests this year.

But don't bother with Blu-ray if you don't have a big-screen HDTV. Or consider a PlayStation 3, which doubles as a Blu-ray player, if you're looking to switch things up on the video-game home front, too.

Tonight's final performances on "American Idol" come down to David and David, Archuleta and Cook. The former is a teenager who has made an early career of acing singing competitions, while the latter is a 25-year-old bartender who auditioned for the top-rated Fox show on a lark.